I often talk about adding alt text to images, but I never actually talk about what makes good alt text, for people who are unsure. So here's my perspective as a sighted person who sometimes uses a screen reader. Tips for writing alt text for images and gifs:

116 days worth of data recorded by ACLED. That's 88% of the year, Palestinians have been fighting for their freedom. tabsoft.co/2Rnq64P If anyone knows where I can find more data on Palestine please DM me #FreePalaestine

Dashboards, dashboards everywhere and not a decision to dri... Uh, to make? Join Chris and I tomorrow to see if we can help you bridge 🌉 the gap between visualisation and decision making.

Appreciate that there are people in the know from Alteryx on the EMEA Inspire chat feed even though it's well past midnight where they probably live.

Thanks for answering my question on the EMEA session! Alteryx #alteryxinspire2021

Pleasantly thought provoking on a Friday morning!

I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that. As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵

Not sure where to start with making your communications fair? Watch this short video, calmly presented and drawn by Tim Ngwena ⤵️ tableau.com/foundation/dat…

Data visualization is fundamentally a tool to make data more accessible to people. But how can we make sure that visualizations don't wind up excluding people instead? Learn about #a11y in Tableau at my public webinar next Tuesday! meetup.com/Lets-talk-Data…

If you missed it (or want to share or listen again!) here's my presentation, "Designing Tableau for Everyone", an intro to accessibility and universal design in #Tableau youtube.com/watch?v=FF-n7j… Any feedback or impressions appreciated! #a11y The Information Lab

Marcus Rashford raised 20 million for starving kids but you’re mad because a ball didn’t go into a net ok

You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics’ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we’re campaigning against, happens.

None of these players have anything to be sorry for.

🇮🇪😆 Such a great interview from Ireland's Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy after their historic gold medal win! #bbcolympics #tokyo2020

(((Howard Forman))) Nate Silver I also made this figure in BioRender to help people understand which antibody test will inform infection vs. vaccination. Hope people find this useful. Please share.

The news of that acquittal is absolute bullshit.

Excellent thread about an awful thing.

Proud of Alisha Dhillon for throwing her hat in for this.

Super excited today to see my #DataVisualization being featured in a exhibit in Nantes about human emergency set up by @MartheViallet and @FloDataviz. Thank you so much for the opportunity and can't wait to see you both in person ✈️

Hey Shazeera Ahmad Zawawi, it was great to meet you yesterday! The interdisciplinary group I mentioned was Forensic Architecture, which you can check out here: forensic-architecture.org